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From: Johannes Unglert <unglert@b1-systems.de>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Improvement suggestion for mkfs.8 manpage
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 16:43:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8cac72fd-8116-53e9-1a7f-5c22377dce04@b1-systems.de> (raw)

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Hello,

i stumbled upon a minor spelling error in the mkfs.8 manpage.
It´s an capitalization error for the verbose option.

Please see attached diff for more information.

How should i handle this? What´s the desired procedure?
Do you want me to create a pull-request?


with best regards

Johannes Unglert
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*** util-linux/disk-utils/mkfs.8	2019-02-06 16:16:12.585415680 +0100
--- util-linux/disk-utils/mkfs.8.new	2019-02-06 16:16:25.693415630 +0100
***************
*** 43,49 ****
  .I fs-options
  Filesystem-specific options to be passed to the real filesystem builder.
  .TP
! .BR \-V , " \-\-verbose"
  Produce verbose output, including all filesystem-specific commands
  that are executed.
  Specifying this option more than once inhibits execution of any
--- 43,49 ----
  .I fs-options
  Filesystem-specific options to be passed to the real filesystem builder.
  .TP
! .BR \-v , " \-\-verbose"
  Produce verbose output, including all filesystem-specific commands
  that are executed.
  Specifying this option more than once inhibits execution of any

             reply	other threads:[~2019-02-06 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-06 15:43 Johannes Unglert [this message]
2019-02-07 16:13 ` Improvement suggestion for mkfs.8 manpage Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-02-08  9:47   ` Johannes Unglert
2019-02-08 15:20     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-02-11  9:41       ` Karel Zak

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